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All this talk of rookies and youth can make you think golf has turned away
from its pipe-and-slippers heartlands. Then there is the twilight high of
Phil Mickelson, suggesting that you cannot beat experience even if it has
oblique soreness.

“It’s a weird feeling not having him here, isn’t it?” Mickelson said as he
contemplated the absence of another golden oldie, Tiger Woods, for the first
time since 1994. Fast forward another decade and Mickelson was making his
major mark. Another ten years and Woods is No 1 and Mickelson is still
winning. “It’s awkward,” the latter said. “As much